- From: Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:52:31 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
I think, these problems show mainly, that the img element of html is outdated since the object element was introduced. There is no relyable method for authors to offer other alternative formats, if one does not work, therefore in doubt (If no traditionally supported format like JPEG or PNG), they should not use this outdated element anymore to have some more control about what happens than just the alt attribute. However this shows in general the problems of multimedia element in the current draft with technically superfluous elements like img or embed and mixing functionality and naming in an inconsistent or imcomplete way for audio, video and object. This complete area looks more like treating the shadows of history than some deliberated concept ;o) Therefore the best approach would be to replace img by image with the same functionality as object and doing similar things concerning functionality with video and audio to get the same approach as in SMIL - the naming is only related to semantics, the authors thinks is right, the functionality is always the same for all of them...
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